MACHINIST MATE 2/C HERBERT WAYNE
GRIZZARD
CREW MEMBER OF PT 32,
ONE OF
THE PT BOATS WHICH RESCUED
GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR

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Photo:- via Steven Schmoldt

Machinist Mate 2/C Herbert Wayne Grizzard

One of the crew members of PT-32 of PT Ron 3 was
Herbert Wayne Grizzard, Machinist Mate 2/C. After the USS PERMIT picked up the crew
of PT-32, they were taken back to either Corregidor or Manila.

Grizzard was then
assigned to the USS Pigeon, and after that boat was sunk in early May, he was
captured by the Japanese, and died in Hoten POW Camp in Manchuria on Dec. 7.,
1944, when a stray American bomb fell into the camp during a bombing raid. He is
now buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Herbert Grizzard was awarded the Silver Star.

The above information was taken from records of the
National Archives and passed on to me by Steven Schmoldt.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Steven Schmoldt for his assistance with this web
page.